In your own words, what is magic to you.
I think magic as about giving someone a memory that they will hold with them for a long time.
Disagreement is fine but keep it civil remember it your own opinion you cant tell someone their opinion is wrong.
I am curious what do you think?
DISCLAIMER:- Before you try to read this...remember, brevity is not friends with me anymore and we broke up ages ago. Brevity is the soul of wit? Ha! Never heard of that! Where did you read such an unreal proverb?!? I say, change your reading habits.
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Magic for me is a feeling. It never ACTUALLY exists, but it is just...there. It is how I personally might define God tbh...not ACTUALLY there, like we can't go millions of miles up to see a human-like persona or a ball of light who is God. But he is just there, of course we don't know where or how, but isn't that the whole point of the mystery surrounding mythological stuff?
And much in the same way...I personally feel magic is always there...we don't know where or how. After all, is that not the whole point of magic? That it is undefinable? What do I keep as my context for magic...vanishing of a coin from my hands or vanishing of cancer from a cancer patient or vanishing of evil from our minds or vanishing of tears from the eyes of the child who cries because he broke his toy?
Magic is that feeling...of impossibility. For my audience, vanishing a coin is impossible, for a cancer patient him living long enough to see cancer free days is impossible, for all of us the world being free of evil is impossible and for that child, happiness after breaking that somersaulting black plastic monkey with an orange un-banana-like looking banana in its hand, is impossible.
And the best part of magic is that, it still happens.
My audience STILL sees a coin vanish. A cancer patient who survives STILL sees the magic in it. We STILL see completly selfless people who'd rather put their own feelings and hopes and dreams to the stake rather than millions of others'. And a child STILL sees that a few moments of his mother fussing over him and his father cuddling him (albeit along with a few licks of an ice-cream bar) makes him happy again!
Magic is the feeling of happiness, of incredibility.
It is the realisation of the fact that the unreal concept is not the concept of magic, but the concept of reality. Tell me, how do I prove I am real?And how do YOU prove you are real? How can anyone of us prove we are real? But I can prove to you that magic exists. Just ask the kinds of people forementioned. History has witnessed millions of moments when people have believed in their hopes and dreams more than the reality and what happens is magic. Isn't it magic that mere cycle-makers managed to make an EXTREMELY heavy machine float on air like a bird?
That feeling which existed in them BEFORE their invention, was magic. The feeling that existed in them WHILE their self-made aeroplane was flying was magic, the feeling that existed in them AFTER their invention was successful is magic.
Reality never existed, it is what is made and broken and made and broken and is in a constant cycle of change.
Magic, however, existed when the world did not.
Mahic for me is that feeling.
Did anyone notice something? Did anyone notice I left out someone when listing people who experience magic? Did anyone ask,
"What about those cancer-patients who die?" (*just saying, if you did not question this fact, chances are you are not reading my post carefully and are just going to skim thru it once with your eyes and then go away. I can say, I don't blame you*)
What about them? Well, who sees and knows that magic is real and is all around us all the time JUST THERE and feels the real wonder better than them?
If you want a proof of magic's existence, ask someone who is going to leave behind the magic of life soon. I assure you, you won't feel the same about magic... whether your thoughts are similar to mine or not.
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I am going to stop now, because I don't wanna risk sounding like a drunk poet. If you did not read anything but are reading this...Have a good day!
And if you read everything and now are wondering,
"Yeah...but what the hell did he want to imply? And was I meant tobecome all emotional reading it?"
Don't tax yourselves...magic has been designed so as to not be understood.
Have a magical day!
